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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Banks Look to Step p Employee Surveillance
Banks already using algorithms to monitor traders are looking to expand surveillance to cover more employees in the wake of the Wells Fargo & Co. scandal.
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These Robots Are sing Static Electricity to Make Nikes
The most labor intensive part of putting together a pair of Nikes is assembling the "upper"—the flexible part of the shoe that sits on top of your foot.
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Hackers Are the Real Obstacle For Self-Driving Vehicles
Before autonomous trucks and taxis hit the road, manufacturers will need to solve problems far more complex than collision avoidance and navigation (see "10 Breakthrough...
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Robot Rolls With the Rules of Pedestrian Conduct
Engineers at MIT have designed an autonomous robot with "socially aware navigation," that can keep pace with foot traffic while observing the general codes of pedestrian...
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In Silicon Valley, the Right Sounds a Surprising Battle Cry: Regulate Tech Giants
A year ago, Andrew Torba would have balked at the idea of regulating the Internet.
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How the Voyager Golden Record Was Made
We inhabit a small planet orbiting a medium-sized star about two-thirds of the way out from the center of the Milky Way galaxy—around where Track 2 on an LP record...
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With the Uss mccain Collision, Even Navy Tech Can't Overcome Human Shortcomings
In the darkness of early morning on August 21, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker in the Strait of Malacca off Singapore.
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Inside Waymo's Secret World For Training Self-Driving Cars
In a corner of Alphabet's campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars.
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Studies: Automated Safety Systems Are Preventing Car Crashes
Safety systems to prevent cars from drifting into another lane or that warn drivers of vehicles in their blind spots are beginning to live up to their potential...
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Biofuel Cells Extract Energy From Sweat to Power Wearable Devices
Engineers at UC San Diego have developed stretchable fuel cells that extract energy from sweat and are capable of powering electronics.
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The Enduring Legacy of Zork
In 1977, four recent MIT graduates who'd met at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science used the lab's PDP-10 mainframe to develop a computer game that captivated...
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End of the Checkout Line: The Looming Crisis For American Cashiers
The day before a fully automated grocery store opened its doors in 1939, the inventor Clarence Saunders took out a full page advertisement in the Memphis Press-Scimitar...
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Robot Monk Learns to 'speak' English
The WeChat account of a robot "monk" in Beijing that uses artificial intelligence to speak with the public is communicating in English — although it still refers...
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The Loyal Engineers Steering Nasa's Voyager Probes Across the Universe
In the early spring of 1977, Larry Zottarelli, a 40-year-old computer engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, set out for Cape Canaveral, Fla....
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The World's Biggest Tech Companies Are No Longer Just American
The technology world's $400 billion-and-up club—long a group of exclusively American names like Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon—needs to make room...
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'it Knew What You Were Going to Do Next': AI Learns from Pro Gamers, Then Crushes Them
For decades, the world's smartest game-playing humans have been racking up losses to increasingly sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence.
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Everyone Thinks That Automation Will Take Our Jobs. The Evidence Disagrees
Last year, the Japanese company SoftBank opened a cell phone store in Tokyo and staffed it entirely with sales associates named Pepper. This wasn't as hard as it...
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Reverence For Robots: Japanese Workers Treasure Automation
Thousands upon thousands of cans are filled with beer, capped and washed, wrapped into six-packs, and boxed at dizzying speeds—1,500 a minute, to be exact—on humming...
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China's Plan For World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy After All
Xu Li's software scans more faces than maybe any on earth. He has the Chinese police to thank.
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Chicago Maps Its nderground Maze
James Jackson has a problem: He doesn't know what he's getting into.
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